In the UK, the second year in a row, the largest musical festival "Glastonbury" in this country was canceled, the relevant information was published on the website of its organizers. The authors of the festival, Michael Ivis and his daughter Emily emphasized that people who have already bought tickets this year will be able to use them at the next festival.

The Russian Prosecutor General’s office sent a second request to Germany due to the situation with the poisoning of the politician Alexei Navalny, the department’s telegram channel said . The Prosecutor General’s Office said that Germany rejected “most of the petitions”, and the protocols of the interrogations of Alexei Navalny and his wife Julia “were inconsistent”.

At the city of Dali, in the province of Yunnan in southern China, archaeologists found the remains of an extensive temple complex, which belonged to the Nanzhao state (649–902). The foundations of 14 buildings, 63 stone walls, 23 ditches and three stairs were found, more than 40 tons of tiles were found that once decorated temple buildings, and more than 8,000 ceramic artifacts, including vessels and painted tiles.

The European Parliament sent the European Union to impose new sanctions against a number of Russian oligarchs and members of the immediate environment of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. The occasion of sanctions is the European Parliament calls the detention of the politician Alexei Navalny.

As a result of a double terrorist attack in the center of Baghdad, at least 21 people were killed, about 80 were injured, reports Iraqi International Information. The publication refers to the representative of the Iraq army. According to him, suicide bombers undermined themselves in the market, they were pursued by local security agents. The area of ​​the attack, Bab Esh-Sharki, is located outside the protected zone of Baghdad-around this "green zone" they strengthened the protection.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced on his website about the softening of coronavirus restrictions in the capital from January 22. The situation with the spread of infection “inspires cautious optimism,” the mayor noted. Colleges, additional education institutions, sports schools and children's leisure institutions are returning to the usual mode of work. Pupil transport cards will unlock.

The authorities of the Dagestan Buinaksk, up to January 24, inclusively closed kindergartens. Pupils of educational schools will be engaged in remotely at this time, TASS reports with reference to the city hall. Such a decision was made at the city operational headquarters due to mass poisoning of children. The authorities claim to control the sanitary and epidemiological situation. Now the number of poisoned is 303 people. Among them are 239 children.

The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation has changed the requirements for storing the vaccine from the coronavirus "satellite V". Now you can store and transport the drug at a temperature of 2 to 8 degrees above zero, TASS reports with reference to the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Mikhail Murashko. Previously, the maximum storage temperature was limited to -18 degrees.

The second Eastern District Military Court sentenced to 24.5 years in a colony of maximum security regime of the ordinary urgent service of Ramil Shamsutdinov, writes TASS. In the fall of 2019, he shot the eight colleagues in the Trans -Baikal Territory. “Almost 25 years of a maximum security colony - this is actually as much as the prosecutor's office requested. The jury showed condescension, but the court did not. Of course, we will appeal too severe the sentence, ” said lawyer Ruslan Nagiyev.

The British newspaper The Daily Telegraph published material under the heading "Germany is conducting secret negotiations with Russia on the return of Koenigsberg." According to the publication, in response to the refusal of Moscow to repay a debt of $ 22 billion, Germany intends to achieve economic domination in Kaliningrad. According to the newspaper, this was discussed during the private visit of the German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to Moscow.

Over the past day, 21,887 new Covid-19 cases in 85 regions have been confirmed in Russia. 612 people died, recovered - 26 902, the official channel of the Moscow Operational Staff said on January 21 on the situation with coronavirus. The opera staff noted that 10.8% of the sick had no symptoms. Most sick in Moscow (3458), St. Petersburg (3112), Moscow Region (1092), Nizhny Novgorod (493) and Sverdlovsk regions (392). The least infected in the Chukchi AO - two people.

The building of the Riga station in Moscow was included in the register of cultural heritage of regional significance. The state will take it under protection, according to the website of the mayor of the capital. The station was built in 1899, its official opening took place two years later. Architecture is attributed to the pseudo -Russian (or neo -Russian) style. The masters used in construction elements of ancient Russian architecture - arched niches, twisted half -columns, carved platbands.

On January 21, 1882, Pavel Florensky, a religious philosopher and scientist, was born. Personal business Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky (1882-1937) was born in the town of Elizabethpol province (now Azerbaijan). Father Alexander Ivanovich Florensky, despite the fact that his family came from the Russian clergy, himself was a secular educated person who lost his connection with the church. He worked as an engineer on the construction of the Transcaucasian Railway.

Twitter froze the official page of the Chinese Embassy in the United States, writes Bloomberg with reference to the representative of the social network. The reason was the post that the Uyghur women stopped being “cars for childbearing”, “liberated their minds” and became “more confident and independent”. This was a commentary on the material of the Chinese newspaper, which refuted allegations of the forced sterilization of women in the Xinjiang-Uygur Autonomous Region.

The Bombbor publishing house presents the book of a German physicist, specialist in quantum gravity of Sabina Hosselfelder “ugly universe. As a search for beauty, physicists have a dead end ”(translation by A. O. Yakimenko). The triumph of physics of elementary particles and other outstanding physical discoveries remained far in the past. Over the past 30 years, physics, alas, does not please us with new ingenious scientific theories. Why is this happening?